Jim Zumbo was forced out of a 30-year career at Outdoor Life magazine, had his television show pulled from the air, and was dropped from sponsorship by companies including Remington and Cabelas due to a single blog post?

.A blog (a contraction of the term
"web log")[1] is a
type of website, usually
maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary,
descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or
video.^Blogs differ from forums, which are generally maintained by an operator who generally does not regularly contribute material to the site, but maintains and edits a web site that is open to postings from anyone.

Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological
order. ."Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain
or add content to a blog.^Content creation like blogs and the like: we use our own name, but willingly create on behalf of the company.

.Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject;
others function as more personal online diaries.^(If the person or people contributing material is also the editor(s), it is more likely a blog than a forum.

.A typical blog combines
text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its
topic.^There are so many other tactics available to us in social media to can bring the executive voice to the customer that a ghostwritten blog is just a cop-out.

.The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive
format is an important part of many blogs.^If you look back at the early history of blogging, the clear expectation on the part of most bloggers and blog readers was that blogs would be written by the author.

Most blogs are primarily
textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (Video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). .Microblogging is
another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.^For our purposes a blog is a web site that is created by and features periodic postings (comments, links, etc.

.As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than
112,000,000 blogs.^(If the person or people contributing material is also the editor(s), it is more likely a blog than a forum.

Types

.There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in
the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered
or written.^There are so many other tactics available to us in social media to can bring the executive voice to the customer that a ghostwritten blog is just a cop-out.

The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an
individual, is the traditional, most common blog. Personal bloggers
usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never
read. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they
become a way to reflect on life, or works of art. Blogging can have
a sentimental quality. Few personal blogs rise to fame and the
mainstream, but some personal blogs quickly garner an extensive
following. One type of personal blog, referred to as a microblog,
is extremely detailed and seeks to capture a moment in time. Some
sites, such as .Twitter,
allow bloggers to share thoughts and feelings instantaneously with
friends and family, and are much faster than emailing or
writing.^Social networks from Facebook, Flickr to Twitter helped us share memories with family and friends.

.Similar blogs for clubs and societies are called club
blogs, group blogs, or by similar names; typical use is to inform
members and other interested parties of club and member
activities.^But if there’s a name and photo attached to a blog post, tweet or any other activity in social media, I think the words should be coming from that particular person and not someone else.

[5][6][7][8][9] While
not a legitimate type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of
spamming is known as a Splog.

By media type

A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is
called a linklog, a site
containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is
called a photoblog.[10].Blogs
with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs.^His branding/marketing/social media blog is called StickyFigure.

Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to
compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA could be called a moblog.[11].One
early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of
a person's personal life combining text, video, and pictures
transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site.^Web site Blog Facebook page Twitter YouTube Donation link .

^Blogs differ from forums, which are generally maintained by an operator who generally does not regularly contribute material to the site, but maintains and edits a web site that is open to postings from anyone.

Community and cataloging

The collective community of all blogs is known as the
blogosphere. .Since all blogs are on the internet by
definition, they may be seen as interconnected and socially
networked, through blogrolls, comments, linkbacks (refbacks, trackbacks or pingbacks)
and backlinks.^Monitoring the discussion occurring in the digital world of blogs, tweets, forums, social networks, etc.

.Discussions
"in the blogosphere" are occasionally used by the media as a gauge
of public opinion on various issues.^To me social media marketing is the use of social media sites to connect with individuals of the same interest area, such as public relations, communications, teaching, etc.

Several blog search engines are used to search blog contents,
such as Bloglines, BlogScope, and Technorati. Technorati,
which is among the most popular blog search engines, provides
current information on both popular searches and tags used to
categorize blog postings[13]. The
research community is working on going beyond simple keyword
search, by inventing new ways to navigate through huge amounts of
information present in the blogosphere, as demonstrated by projects
like BlogScope.|]]]

Blogging communities and directories

Several online
communities exist that connect people to blogs and bloggers to
other bloggers, including BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog[14].
Interest-specific blogging platforms are also available. For
instance, Blogster has a
sizable community of political bloggers among its members.

It is common for blogs to feature advertisements either to
financially benefit the blogger or to promote the blogger's
favorite causes. The popularity of blogs has also given rise to ."fake blogs" in which a
company will create a fictional blog as a marketing tool to promote
a product.^Diva Marketing Blog - Marketing blogs and corporate social media strategies for innovative companies Home About Contact Diva's Blogroll The Diva Marketing Blog Approach To Blog Strategy GO » .

^Just like you might get an advertisement or letter or email from a company and it is not "signed" by the marketing person or agency that created it, you might get a Tweet from a company but not know who exactly wrote it.

Popularity

Researchers have analyzed the dynamics of how blogs become
popular. There are essentially two measures of this: popularity
through citations, as well as popularity through affiliation (i.e.
blogroll). .The basic conclusion from
studies of the structure of blogs is that while it takes time for a
blog to become popular through blogrolls, permalinks can boost
popularity more quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of
popularity and authority than blogrolls, since they denote that
people are actually reading the blog's content and deem it valuable
or noteworthy in specific cases.^(If the person or people contributing material is also the editor(s), it is more likely a blog than a forum.

^Through the Center's studies they believed their efforts would be more fruitful if the children stayed with their parents as long as they taught the parents how to provide and parent for a successful family life.

.The blogdex project was
launched by researchers in the MIT Media Lab to crawl the Web and gather
data from thousands of blogs in order to investigate their social
properties.^There are so many other tactics available to us in social media to can bring the executive voice to the customer that a ghostwritten blog is just a cop-out.

It gathered this information for over 4 years, and
autonomously tracked the most contagious information spreading in
the blog community, ranking it by recency and popularity. It can
therefore be considered the first instantiation of a memetracker. .The
project is no longer active, but a similar function is now served
by tailrank.com.^Tampabay.com’s Money Talk blog ( http://blogs.tampabay.com/money/ , no longer updated).

Blogs are given rankings by Technorati based on the number of incoming
links and Alexa
Internet based on the Web hits of Alexa Toolbar users. In
August 2006, Technorati found that the most linked-to blog on the
internet was that of Chinese actress Xu Jinglei.[17].Chinese media Xinhua reported that this blog received
more than 50 million page views, claiming it to be the most popular
blog in the world.^A zillion landing page blogs are pretending to be social media ..

[18].Technorati rated Boing
Boing to be the most-read group-written blog.^If you look back at the early history of blogging, the clear expectation on the part of most bloggers and blog readers was that blogs would be written by the author.

Blurring with the mass
media

.Many bloggers, particularly those engaged in participatory journalism, differentiate
themselves from the mainstream media,
while others are members of that media working through a different
channel.^In 2010, we look forward to expanding the conversation ourselves via our own presence on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media channels!

Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting
around the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public. .Some
critics worry that bloggers respect neither copyright nor the role of the mass media in presenting
society with credible news.^I know companies that have ventured into social media and are relying on agency advice and assistance, when they have some talented small business bloggers on the payroll.

.Many mainstream journalists, meanwhile, write their own blogs —
well over 300, according to CyberJournalist.net's J-blog list.^Few CEOs write their own speeches so why should they labor over blog posts?

.The
first known use of a blog on a news site was in August 1998, when
Jonathan Dube of
The Charlotte Observer published one
chronicling Hurricane Bonnie.^(That said, in reality, I bet the CMO or his or her designee is the one actually monitoring the blog, drafting those responses, and running them by the CEO for approval before hitting publish).

.In counterpoint,
Hugh Hewitt
exemplifies a mass-media personality who has moved in the other
direction, adding to his reach in "old media" by being an
influential blogger.^Social media public relations, on the other hand, is just an extension of normal public relations where instead of just saying one's publics are important, the company actually reaches out through mass media to individual stakeholder.

.Equally many established authors, for example
Mitzi Szereto
have started using Blogs to not only update fans on their current
works but also to expand into new areas of writing.^Attorney David O. Markus writes the Southern District of Flordia blog ( sdfla.blogspot.com ) focusing on cases and news involving the court.

Blogs have also had an influence on minority languages, bringing together
scattered speakers and learners; this is particularly so with blogs
in Gaelic languages. Minority language
publishing (which may lack economic feasibility) can find its
audience through inexpensive blogging.

.There are many examples of bloggers who have published books
based on their blogs, e.g., Salam Pax, Ellen Simonetti, Jessica Cutler,
ScrappleFace.^There are so many other tactics available to us in social media to can bring the executive voice to the customer that a ghostwritten blog is just a cop-out.

[21]
However, success has been elusive offline, with many of these books
not selling as well as their blogs. .Only blogger Tucker Max made the New York
Times Bestseller List.^Throughout December I'll be highlighting stories from nonprofits that light the way for causes that may not be on the front page of the New York Times.

[22].The
book based on Julie
Powell's blog "The Julie/Julia Project" was made into the film
Julie
& Julia, apparently the first to do so.^He also filed a separate suit in Arkansas over a book based on the blog.

Legal and social
consequences

Blogging can result in a range of legal liabilities and other
unforeseen consequences.

Defamation or liability

.Several cases have been brought before the national courts
against bloggers concerning issues of defamation or
liability.^In August 2006, the Appellate Division reversed a trial court ruling dismissing former Cornwall Supervisor Jim Sollami's defamation case against Tom Sheppard, who publishes the blog Cornball-local.com.

^In dismissing the case with prejudice, the Supreme Court held that before an anonymous commenter could be identified the plaintiff had to provide evidence to support each element of his claim to an extent that created triable issues of fact.

U.S. payouts related to blogging totaled $17.4
million by 2009; in some cases these have been covered by umbrella
insurance.[23] The
courts have returned with mixed verdicts. .Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in
general, are immune from liability for information that originates
with third parties (U.S. Communications Decency Act
and the EU Directive 2000/31/EC).^While Albero would normally be exempt from liability for comments posted to his site by others under section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act, the suit claims that Albero lost this protection by selecting which comments submitted to the site would and would not be posted.

In Doe v. .Cahill, the Delaware Supreme Court held that
stringent standards had to be met to unmask the anonymous posts
of bloggers and also took the unusual step of dismissing the libel
case itself (as unfounded under American libel law) rather than
referring it back to the trial court for reconsideration.^On appeal the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a trial court decision that used a good faith standard to deny Doe’s request for an emergency protection order.

^In dismissing the case with prejudice, the Supreme Court held that before an anonymous commenter could be identified the plaintiff had to provide evidence to support each element of his claim to an extent that created triable issues of fact.

[24].In a
bizarre twist, the Cahills were able to obtain the identity of John
Doe, who turned out to be the person they suspected: the town's
mayor, Councilman Cahill's political rival.^Ward initially sued the anonymous blogger as John Doe, and sought to obtain the blogger’s identity by seeking to depose Google.

^After viewing negative comments posted by an anonymous commenter on the Smyrna/Clayton Issues Blog, City Councilman Patrick Cahill filed a John Doe lawsuit and obtained a court order to compel Comcast to identify the poster.

The Cahills amended
their original complaint, and the mayor settled the case rather
than going to trial.

.In January 2007, two prominent Malaysian political bloggers, Jeff Ooi and Ahiruddin Attan, were sued by
pro-government newspaper, The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia)
Berhad, Kalimullah bin Masheerul Hassan, Hishamuddin bin Aun and
Brenden John a/l John Pereira over an alleged defamation.^Ward initially sued the anonymous blogger as John Doe, and sought to obtain the blogger’s identity by seeking to depose Google.

The
plaintiff was supported by the Malaysian government.[25].Following the suit, the Malaysian government proposed to "register"
all bloggers in Malaysia in order to better control parties against
their interest.^Better not to delegate all responsibility for your social efforts to 3rd parties who - for the most part - really can't speak competently to your customers.

In the United States, blogger Aaron Wall was sued by Traffic Power for defamation and
publication of trade secrets in 2005.[27]
According to Wired Magazine, Traffic Power had been "banned from
Google for allegedly rigging search engine results."[28] Wall
and other "white hat" search engine optimization
consultants had exposed Traffic Power in what they claim was an
effort to protect the public. .The case was watched by many bloggers
because it addressed the murky legal question of who is liable for
comments posted on blogs.^Identify the people who are posting and who is commenting .

[29].The
case was dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction, and Traffic
Power failed to appeal within the allowed time.^And it dismissed all the claims against Helix for lack of personal jurisdiction.

In 2009, a controversial and landmark decision by The Hon. .Mr Justice Eady
refused to grant an order to protect the anonymity of Richard Horton.^The Electronic Frontier Foundation, representing the anonymous commenters and bloggers, obtained a temporary order protecting the their identities in July 2009, and in August sought to to make the order permanent.

.In 2009, NDTV issued a legal
notice to Indian blogger Chetan Kunte for "abusive free speech"
regarding a blog post criticizing their coverage of the Mumbai attacks.^On April 15, 2009, The Baltimore Sun issued a cease and desist order to blogger Jeff Quinton on the issue of copyright infringement.

[35].The blogger unconditionally withdrew his post, replacing it with
legal undertaking and an admission that his post had been
"defamatory and untrue" which resulted in several Indian bloggers
criticizing NDTV for trying to silence critics.^After the suit was filed, Arthur tried to add several bloggers who wrote about the interview as defendants.

Employment

.Employees who blog about elements of their place of employment
raise the issue of employee branding, since their
activities can begin to affect the brand recognition of their
employer.^Other sources of information about legal issues surrounding blogs include: .

.In general, attempts by employee bloggers to protect
themselves by maintaining anonymity have proved ineffective.^The Electronic Frontier Foundation, representing the anonymous commenters and bloggers, obtained a temporary order protecting the their identities in July 2009, and in August sought to to make the order permanent.

In late 2004, Ellen Simonetti was fired for what was
deemed by her employer, Delta Air Lines, to be inappropriate
material on her blog. She subsequently wrote a book based on her
blog.

.Delta Air
Lines fired flight attendantEllen Simonetti
because she posted photographs of herself in uniform on an airplane
and because of comments posted on her blog "Queen of Sky: Diary of
a Flight Attendant" which the employer deemed inappropriate.^A religious organization sued a critic, Frank Vance, for comments posted on his blog about the group and its leaders at vancetribe.blogspot.com .

[38][39] This
case highlighted the issue of personal blogging and freedom of
expression vs. employer rights and responsibilities, and so it
received wide media attention. Simonetti took legal action against
the airline for "wrongful termination, defamation of character and
lost future wages".[40] The
suit was postponed while Delta was in bankruptcy proceedings (court docket).

.In early 2006, Erik Ringmar, a tenured senior lecturer at the London School of Economics,
was ordered by the convenor of his department to "take down and
destroy" his blog in which he discussed the quality of education at
the school.^Denner sent a copy of the court order to Google, which shut down the blog on Dec.

.Mark Jen was terminated in 2005 after 10 days of employment as
an Assistant Product Manager at Google for discussing corporate secrets on his
personal blog, then called 99zeros and hosted on the Google-owned
Blogger service.^The blog links to and often discusses Helix Health, a company that provides referrals to physicians who practice personalized medicine, and includes its logo.

^The problem I see here is that companies have hired out to create marketing products before the creation of Social Media and those marketing products do not have any type of transparency as though the company created those marketing products themselves.

He was fired two days
after he complied with his employer's request to remove the
sensitive material from his blog.[44]

In India, blogger Gaurav Sabnis resigned from IBM after his posts exposing the false claims of a
management school, IIPM, led to management of IIPM threatening to
burn their IBM laptops as a sign of protest against him.[45]

Jessica
Cutler, aka "The Washingtonienne",
blogged about her sex life while employed as a congressional
assistant. After the blog was discovered and she was fired,[46] she
wrote a novel based on her experiences and blog: The
Washingtonienne: A Novel. Cutler is presently being sued by
one of her former lovers in a case that could establish the extent
to which bloggers are obligated to protect the privacy of their
real life associates.[47]

Catherine Sanderson, a.k.a. Petite Anglaise, lost her job in Paris
at a British accountancy firm because of blogging.[48]
Although given in the blog in a fairly anonymous manner, some of
the descriptions of the firm and some of its people were less than
flattering. Sanderson later won a compensation claim case against
the British firm, however.[49]

.On the other hand, Penelope Trunk wrote an upbeat article in the
Boston Globe back in 2006, entitled "Blogs 'essential' to a good
career". She was one of the first journalists to point out that
a large portion of bloggers are professionals and that a
well-written blog can help attract employers.^A reader pointed out this gem posted on Orly Taitz's blog yesterday: I decided to check out possibility of running and called Orange County elections office.

Political
dangers

Blogging can sometimes have unforeseen consequences in
politically sensitive areas. Blogs are much harder to control than
broadcast or even print media. .As a result, totalitarian
and authoritarian regimes often seek to
suppress blogs and/or to punish those who maintain them.^People who use social networks or those blog things just want to rant about things they know nothing about.

Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer was charged
with insulting the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and an Islamicinstitution through his blog. It is
the first time in the history of Egypt that a blogger was
prosecuted. .After a brief trial session that took place in Alexandria, the blogger
was found guilty and sentenced to prison terms of three years for
insulting Islam and inciting
sedition, and one year for insulting Mubarak.^The formal opening took place one year after the date of the fire on November 25, 1929 .

.After expressing opinions in his personal blog about the state
of the Sudanese armed forces, Jan Pronk, United Nations Special Representative
for the Sudan, was given three
days notice to leave Sudan.^'Personal' in my opinion isn't about a particular 'person'....it is about personalized service through social media that ends with a happy customer and a positive impression which builds that company's brand.

Personal
safety

One consequence of blogging is the possibility of attacks or
threats against the blogger, sometimes without apparent reason. Kathy Sierra, author
of the innocuous blog Creating Passionate Users,
was the target of such vicious threats and misogynistic insults
that she canceled her keynote speech at a technology conference in
San Diego, fearing for her safety.[56] While
a blogger's anonymity is often tenuous, Internet trolls
who would attack a blogger with threats or insults can be
emboldened by anonymity. Sierra and supporters initiated an online
discussion aimed at countering abusive online behavior[57] and
developed a blogger's
code of conduct.

History

.The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[58] on 17
December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz,
who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we
blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May
1999.[59][60][61]
Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as
both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or
to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in
connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the
popularization of the terms.^However, some find it strange that conversations with people who might be more of an acquaintance than one we might call a "friend" often lead to important ideas.

In the 1990s,
Internet forum
software, such as WebEx, created
running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical
connections between messages on a metaphorical "corkboard."

.The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a
running account of their personal lives.^Coupled with social media tools like blogging and Facebook, we've been able to reach more people than we would have ever imagined.

Most such writers called
themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. .Justin Hall, who began
personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore
College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest
bloggers,[64] as is
Jerry
Pournelle.^This semester students were required to post their reaction to the various components of International PR on their personal blogs.

Dave
Winer's Scripting News is also credited with being one of the
oldest and longest running weblogs.[65][66].Another early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared
diary of a person's personal life combining text, video, and
pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device
to a web site in 1994. This practice of semi-automated blogging
with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance, and
such journals were also used as evidence in legal matters.^Determining resource allocation: people, time and money will impact which tools, or tactics, you choose to use Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Video, etc.

^I use social media in all of my public relations classes, by asking students to participate, such as on Twitter, by showing YouTube videos and other social sites in class, and by bookmarking course readings on Delicious.

However, the
evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of
Web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the
publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical,
population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of
online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. .For
instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a
typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run
using blog
software, or on regular web hosting services.^There are some CEOs who have very publicly stated that they in fact are doing the blogging.

Rise in
popularity

After a slow start, blogging rapidly gained in popularity. Blog
usage spread during 1999 and the years following, being further
popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted
blog tools:

Bruce
Ableson launched Open
Diary in October 1998, which soon grew to thousands of online
diaries. .Open Diary innovated the reader comment, becoming the
first blog community where readers could add comments to other
writers' blog entries.

Andrew Smales created Pitas.com in July 1999 as an easier
alternative to maintaining a "news page" on a Web site, followed by
Diaryland in September 1999, focusing more on a personal diary
community.^Community Connections: Neighbors connect and learn from each other – for example, through The First Tee of East Lake, a dynamic program that teaches both golf and life skills while opening the doors to colleges, scholarships and jobs for hundreds of children.

Political
impact

Since 2002, blogs have gained increasing notice and coverage for
their role in breaking, shaping, and spinningnews stories. For the first time in the history of
modern journalism, the financial and political goals of U.S.-Israeli relations are being analyzed
in depth.[68]
The Iraq war saw bloggers taking
measured and passionate points[69] of
view that go beyond the traditional left-right
divide of the political spectrum.

On 6 December 2002, Josh Marshall's talkingpointsmemo.com blog
called attention to U.S. Senator Lott's comments regarding Senator
Thurmond. Senator Lott was eventually to resign over the
matter.

An early milestone in the rise in importance of blogs came in
2002, when many bloggers focused on comments by U.S. Senate Majority LeaderTrent Lott.[68]
Senator Lott, at a party honoring U.S. SenatorStrom Thurmond,
praised Senator Thurmond by suggesting that the United States would
have been better off had Thurmond been elected president. Lott's
critics saw these comments as a tacit approval of racial
segregation, a policy advocated by Thurmond's 1948
presidential campaign. This view was reinforced by documents
and recorded interviews dug up by bloggers. (See Josh Marshall's
Talking Points Memo.) Though
Lott's comments were made at a public event attended by the media,
no major media organizations reported on his controversial comments
until after blogs broke the story. Blogging helped to create a
political crisis that forced Lott to step down as majority
leader.

Similarly, blogs were among the driving forces behind the "Rathergate" scandal. To wit: (television
journalist) Dan Rather
presented documents (on the CBS show 60 Minutes) that conflicted with
accepted accounts of President Bush's military service record.
Bloggers declared the documents to be forgeries and presented evidence and arguments
in support of that view. Consequently, CBS apologized for what it
said were inadequate reporting techniques (see Little Green Footballs). .Many
bloggers view this scandal as the advent of blogs' acceptance by
the mass media, both as a news source and opinion and as means of
applying political pressure.^There are so many other tactics available to us in social media to can bring the executive voice to the customer that a ghostwritten blog is just a cop-out.

The impact of these stories gave greater credibility to blogs as
a medium of news dissemination. .Though often seen as partisan
gossips, bloggers sometimes lead the way in bringing key
information to public light, with mainstream media having to follow
their lead.^To me, social media is where marketing meets PR, because it's often about building relationships and publicizing people, issues and products.

.More often, however, news blogs tend to react to
material already published by the mainstream media.^However, some find it strange that conversations with people who might be more of an acquaintance than one we might call a "friend" often lead to important ideas.

Mainstream
popularity

.By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services, and
candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion
forming.^Determining resource allocation: people, time and money will impact which tools, or tactics, you choose to use Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Video, etc.

Blogging was established by politicians and political
candidates to express opinions on war and other issues and cemented
blogs' role as a news source. (See Howard Dean and Wesley Clark.) Even politicians not
actively campaigning, such as the UK's Labour Party'sMPTom
Watson, began to blog to bond with constituents.

The impact of blogging upon the mainstream media has also been
acknowledged by governments. In 2009, the presence of the American
journalism industry had declined to the point that several
newspaper corporations were filing for bankruptcy, resulting in
less direct competition between newspapers within the same
circulation area. Discussion emerged as to whether the newspaper
industry would benefit from a stimulus package by the federal
government. .President Barack Obama acknowledged the emerging
influence of blogging upon society by saying "if the direction of
the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious
fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that
what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other
across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding”.^A lot is offered in Atlanta, but it’s not the end all.

From Wikiversity

What is blog?

.A weblog (now shortened to blog) is a communication tool which
enables an individual to write an online personal journal and
allows other people to comment on their entries.^Comment on this blog entry Topics: Government IT .

.A blog is defined
by the Merriam Webster dictionary as a 'Web site that contains an
online personal journal with reflections, comments and often
hyperlinks provided by the writer'[1].^Personal site for blog entries Entries [5] .

.Many blogs provide commentary or news on
a particular subject; others function as more personal online
diaries.^Educational events will focus on informing teens about the importance of protecting the privacy of their personal information online, on social networking sites and in other Internet activities.

.The ability
for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an
important part of many blogs.^TSA.gov DHS Leadership Journal Google TSA News Subscribe in a reader View blog authority Click here to see what will get your comment deleted.

^Readers are encouraged to take part in the blogging by using the comments threads to suggest links to relevant material elsewhere on the Web or by submitting eyewitness accounts, photographs or video of news events.

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.Blogs can contain a variety of resources and need not
necessarily concentrate on textual information.^I can provide my thoughts on a wide variety of topics, but I'm afraid that talking about anything and everything will detract from the purpose of my blog: providing helpful information and resources for people needing information on my chosen topic.

^And besides, I figure there are a number of places where you can find me hyping up our new projects and besides most Blog@Newsarama readers would tune me out if all I did was chat up Top Cow projects.

.Below are a number of links which may
assist with the initial creation of a blog.^USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house] ·· = not in English link = Struck out blogs are on 'death watch' and may be removed soon unless updated.

This can cover anything you feel is appropriate, but a few
suggestions as to topics are listed below: • Reasons for choosing
the blogging software you opted for • Initial thoughts on the use
of blogs for assessment

.As before, choose whichever tool you feel would be
most appropriate for you.^Not only do they have their very own "Glaucoma Hymn"as background music, you can choose "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley if you're feeling less operatic.

• .Resourcing the Curriculum:
Blogs in Education - Provides an overview of Blogs/Blogging and
then list a number of useful blogging sites and resources.^Using Music on a Web site WDVL's Lee Creek provides great basics about adding sound to your site, recommendations and how to do so, with resources to more information.

.
Interesting Blogs Commentary - Will Richardson's expression is
worth thinking aout: By its very nature, assigned blogging in
schools cannot be blogging.^In this world, the very personal nature of blogs had far more resonance than more impersonal corporate media products.

It's contrived. .No matter how much we
want to spout off about the wonders of audience and readership,
students who are asked to blog are blogging for an audience of one,
the teacher.^No one knows how many blogs there are.

.Richardson wants to teach students to write with
passion, but he notes: I can't let them do it passionately due to
the inherent censorship that a high school served Weblog carries
with it.^High school student .

^Students from Amphitheater, Canyon del Oro and Ironwood Ridge high schools in the Amphitheater Public Schools district, along with Marana and Mountain View high schools in the Marana Unified School District, attended the event.

Is assessement disturbing learning with blogging? Could it
be vice versa and how? .Things you really need to
learn is not so positive towards assessement: "Your school will
try to teach you facts, which you'll need to pass the test but
which are otherwise useless.^It's inevitable that you'll have smaller things you'll need to take care of.

^With this first-launch, we are looking for your thoughts on the best ways you enjoy learning and making use of the new material, as well as ideas and suggestions about Zimlet topics that you think we should cover.

.The incorporation of diaries and journals as learning and
assessment vehicles into programmes of study within higher
education has enabled the further growth of reflection, creative
writing, critical thinking and meta-cognitive processes of
students' learning.^The IQ Actionizer is packed full of learning content for students in the third, fourth, and fifth grades, which means reading, writing, and arithmetic feature prominently.

^The governor reiterated his recent proposal calling on the Texas Education Agency and the Department of Public Safety to work with local school districts to further leverage the privilege of a driver’s license as an incentive to keep students engaged in the education process.

.However, there is currently little research
that aims to compare how different types of diary are used and for
what specific learning and teaching purposes, so, with this in
mind, a study was carried out to investigate digital diary use
within a group of undergraduates, to some of whom the authors
allocated Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), which they used to
contribute to a blog (digital diaries), and to some of whom
hard-backed format (paper diaries) were given.^Python is used to teach undergraduates programming .

.The findings indicated that whilst
students found both forms of diary acceptable and convenient,
differences emerged in the way that the diaries were being used on
a day-to-day basis, both in the frequency of entry and in the
length of entries made.^Apparently, lead singer Alex Kapranos found out via Twitter that one of his band's songs was being used in a McDonald's commercial, and he was NOT happy about it.

.Throughout the study, the digital diaries
were used more frequently, although the entries were often brief
and incomplete.^The visual effectiveness and frequency of use of DHTML elements can be studied.

.Conversely, students completing the paper diaries
made significantly fewer entries in total, but those that were made
were longer and more discursive in nature.^However, measuring natural behavior gives a much more accurate picture of a user’s immediate experience than asking them after the task is complete.

.Further, it was found
that the paper diaries possessed positive qualities related to
handling and attractiveness that promoted more prolonged use,
whilst the negative qualities of the digital diaries were linked to
technical limitations.^It's more of an itch than a positive quality.

.The implications of this work are considered
in relation to more general notions of using dynamic devices to
encourage students to engage in reflexive criticism.^To get a little more technical, some of the APIs we used have changed significantly, so we have to rework a great deal of the application logic to make the Joost app work on 0S 3.0.

.Assignment: What kind of assessment is supported
and promoted in the use of Blogs and Blogging software?^It is a web-based live support software, which offers professional hosting service & FREE live chat software on non-commercial purposes to use.

^While we employ designers on our team, they are focused on building crowdspring.com and directly on the community (although you’ll find them from time to time writing blog posts and participating in the forums).

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Despite recent rumors that Sony may be preparing to exit the console hardware business given its management shift among top SCEI executives, Holman clarifies with SmartHouse that Sony is indeed planning to launch a PlayStation 4, but no sooner than 2010.^Thunderstorms and heavy rain on the 28th caused January 2010 to be wetter than usual (2.76 inches vs. Top 10 record books.

."To say that there will be no PS4 because of a management change is a bit far fetched," Holman says.^That last bit may sound odd, but as an example, there are no fewer than four iPhones/Touches circulating now in my family and we are not alone.

.According to Holman, it's too soon to be speaking of the PS4, since game developers are just discovering that the PS3 has "more processing headroom than they initially anticipated and that this was resulting in the development of new gaming capabilities."^But it is more than just a book review.

^Feb 3, 2010 Speaking on Good Morning America this morning during a report on the terror threat, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke pegged cyberthreats as just as, if not more, serious than the next iteration of the underwear bomber.

.Holman said that Sony plans to release a series of firmware upgrades, as the company has done with its PSP, to enable the PS3 to become more media center oriented and allow for third-party applications and hardware "such as interactive controllers" like the Nintendo Wii remote.^"It's plenty comfy, and I'll tell ya, they don't make 'em with levers like this anymore," said Biden, scratching at a series of red welts on his arms as he pointed out the pocket on the side that could hold both a remote control and a Coors tallboy.

Blog is another word for weblog. A weblog is a website that is like a diary or journal. Most people can create a blog and then write on that blog. Bloggers (a word for people who write on blogs) often write about their opinions and thoughts.

When a person writes on a blog, what they write is in the form of a post, which is a single piece of writing on the blog. Posts often include links to other websites.

Blogs can have one or more writers. If they have more than one writer, they are often called community blogs, team blogs, or group blogs.

How blogs work

On many blogs, the person reading the posts can leave comments, which are notes in which a person says what they think about the blog post. This makes blogs good for discussion — if someone writes something that someone else does not believe to be true, someone else can fix it by writing a comment on that blog or on their own blog. Someone else cannot change what the post says, but the writer of the post can. Not all blog posts need to be talked about or fixed. But if there are a lot of people interested in a topic, they can start a discussion on the original blog, on their own blogs, or both. These people can discuss a topic or their point of view.

Very often, a community blog or group blog will shrink into a small group of bloggers (writers) who know and trust each other, called a creative network. That kind of community blog will also have a larger group of people, a social network, who only read (and maybe comment on) the blog. Some blogs have scoring (ranking) of posts that makes these networks more solid, so that postings that people like the most are shown first or in a way that is easier to find.

Often people have their own blog and make an RSS feed to it. When blogs have RSS feeds, other programs, called content aggregators, can put postings from all the blogs that a person likes in one place. Many people find it easier to read all the new posts from blogs they like in one place, through RSS, instead of going to each site one at a time.

Some experts think that community blogs, and some groups of individual (one-person) blogs that talk about similar topics, have a power structure like that inside a political party. These experts think that a clique (a small, exclusive group of people) will control discussions by choosing when someone has "won" an argument, and when a matter is decided. But an advantage of blogs is that even people outside that clique can comment on the original discussion.